Commodity and religion in Pope's The Rape of the Lock: Alex Eric Hernandez.(Alexander Pope)(Critical essay)

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | June 22, 2008| | Copyright

Critics reading Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock typically identify the bathetic placement of items on Belinda's toilette as an example of the proliferation of consumables in the poem. The heroine's "Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux," aside from being a moment of literary inventiveness for Pope, serve as a paradigmatic example of the mixture of high and low themes characteristic of bathos. (1) The past twenty-five years have seen influential work proceed from a variety of contextual perspectives in order to analyze the contemporary market for these ...

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